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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word public schools:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. public schools: Merriam-Webster
  2. public schools: Collins English Dictionary
  3. public schools: Vocabulary.com
  4. public-schools: Wordnik
  5. public schools: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. public schools: Wiktionary
  7. Public schools: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Public schools: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Public schools (UK), Public schools: Encyclopedia

(Note: See public_school as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (public school)

noun:  (UK, Ireland, India) Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school
noun:  (obsolete) A college or university
noun:  (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippines, formerly Scottish) A publicly funded and administered school; (UK, Ireland) such schools in the context of other countries
▸ Also see public_school

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